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From today's CPA briefing we learn that a Task Force Olympia soldier was killed in a RPG attack on a vehicle near Tall Afar on Tuesday. Three other soldiers were injured in the attack.
GEN. KIMMITT: [...] In the northern zone of operations Iraqi security forces executed a series of cordon and searches in zone. The first operation took place northwest of Hammam al Alil, targeting an enemy cell. The ICDC established the outer cordon and the Iraqi police service established the inner cordon and conducted the searches.
In the second operation an ICDC platoon executed two cordon and searches in Qarariyah, targeting two counterfeiters. Both targets were detained and subsequently turned over to coalition custody for interrogation. Several fake ID cards were confiscated and these operations are the first independent operations executed by Iraqi security forces in the northern zone of operation.
Three drive-by shooters attacked an Iraqi media network team in an SUV in northwest Mosul this afternoon. The driver of the vehicle was killed. The remaining two occupants were injured. One of the injured was treated at a local hospital and released. The second individual is in stable condition in a Mosul hospital.
Early this morning, coalition forces conducted five simultaneous cordon-and-search operations to kill or capture members of an anti-coalition cell in Mosul. This group included a number of former regime elements suspected of attacks against U.S. persons in the Hai Al-Karama district of Mosul, on the -- and on the main road between Mosul and Erbil. Coalition forces detained 14 individuals, including four targets, and transported them to coalition custody for interrogation.
One Task Force Olympia soldier died today from wounds sustained in a rocket-propelled grenade attack on a QRF vehicle yesterday near Tall Afar. Three other soldiers were wounded in the incident, and the quick reaction force was responding to an earlier IED attack on a coalition patrol when it too came under attack.